[elrepo] [elrepo-devel] Broken kmod-compat-wireless package

[Phil Perry]

On 10/08/12 03:21, ni at centergate.net wrote:
>
>> And now I have 3.5-3 code that compiles on RHEL6.3 so tomorrow (as it's
>> late here now) we should hopefully have some packages to test. No
>> promises, they could be broken packages, but we are definitely making
>> progress.
>>
>> I don't have any wireless-enabled el6 hardware so we will be looking for
>> testers :-)
>
> /me raises his hand.
>
> Wow, awesome work! Thanks so much Phil.
>
> Let me know when and where and I'll pull it down.
>
> FWIW, I'll be testing with: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
> 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>

Hi Nick, everyone.

I've just pushed the following packages to the el6 testing repository:

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/

compat-wireless-kmod-3.5-3.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
kmod-compat-wireless-3.5-3.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-compat-wireless-3.5-3.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

They should show up on the above link (and on the mirrors) shortly.

Please test these and let us know how you get on.

These packages are based on the compat-wireless project backport from 
the stable 3.5.3 kernel release and are built by us (elrepo) to support 
RHEL6.3.

I've installed the packages on my test machine (you can ignore the 
warnings about unknown symbols for older kernels during installation) 
and have loaded a few random modules (e.g, b44, iwlwifi) which seem fine 
but I don't have any wireless hardware to specifically test.

Please take a look in /var/log/messages and dmesg for hints that things 
are working/not working as expected.

You can report back either here or to the bug tracker - I don't mind which.

Good luck and happy testing!

Regards,

Phil